How should photographers challenge their audience and how has the practice of photography progressed in the last several decades? We’ll talk this evening with one of the agents of that change – artist Barbara Crane. Her groundbreaking work from the last 25 years can be seen in “Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision,” which is on exhibit […]
For almost 40 years, no other show has delighted kids and parents like Sesame Street. How did it get started and why has the show lasted so long? Television critic Michael Davis will join us this hour to discuss his new book, “Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street” (Viking, 2008).
We all need sleep to make it through the day, but are there other benefits of getting that important shut-eye? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Matt Walker, who’ll lecture at UTD’s The Brain: An Owner’s Guide BrainHealth Lecture Series on Tuesday, February 17th.
Will the U.S. Government, under a new administration, finally be able to solve the health-care issues that have trouble so many Americans? We’ll talk this hour with Luke Mitchell, Senior Editor for Harper’s Magazine and author of the current piece “Sick in the Head: Why America Won’t Get the Health-Care System it Needs.”
What followed the so-called “great leap forward” in human civilization and was that really the end of biological evolution in human beings? We’ll explore the subject this hour with Gregory Cochran, physicist and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah and co-author of the new book “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated […]
If you had to flee your homeland in order to have a life free from government persecution, how would you do it? We’ll spend this hour with journalist Tom O’Neill, whose story “Escape from North Korea” appears in the current issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Who was Charles Darwin before he wrote the landmark “On the Origin of Species?” We’ll find out this hour with Keith Thomson, professor emeritus of natural history at the University of Oxford and author of “The Young Charles Darwin” (Yale, 2009).
What does a century sound like? This hour we’ll discuss and listen to the sounds of the last century with MacArthur Fellow Alex Ross. His highly acclaimed book, now in paperback, is “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century” (Picador, 2007).
Why does some literature seem better when read aloud? That’s the question that Selected Shorts has been answering for almost twenty years on the stage and nationwide on public radio. We’ll spend this hour with Isaiah Sheffer, a founder and artistic director of Symphony Space in New York City, and director of Selected Shorts. Sheffer […]
The July, 1999 drug busts in Tulia Texas were initially hailed as great progress in the War on Drugs, but quickly became emblematic of the serious racial divides in Tulia and elsewhere. PBS’s Independent Lens takes a look back with “Tulia Texas” on Tuesday, February 10th. We’ll talk this evening with Judge Ron Chapman, Retired […]
